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China conducted long-range live-fire drills in the East China Sea on Wednesday, practicing precision strikes on port and energy facilities. These exercises follow increased Chinese rhetoric against Taiwan's president and come after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Asia visit, during which he criticized Beijing. China considers democratically governed Taiwan its own territory and has repeatedly denounced Taiwan's president as a "separatist."

Courtesy: theprint.in

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